Snappymail - Rainloop Fork

[necrevistonnezr]

I haven't created a topic in App Wishlist yet before knowing more: Has anybody tried "Snappymail", a fork of Rainloop?

https://github.com/the-djmaze/snappymail
https://snappymail.eu/

Demo: https://snappymail.eu/demo/

Simple, modern, lightweight & fast web-based email client.

Booting with 200 KB download (using Brotli) and a 92% mobile performance grade by Lighthouse.

This is a fork of the much appreciated RainLoop, but with massive changes to be compatible with (mobile) browsers in 2020.

Checkout the source, releases and wiki at https://github.com/the-djmaze/snappymail

[robi]

Great find, we need a more modern webmail.

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The drastically upgraded & secured fork of RainLoop Webmail Community edition.

We thank the RainLoop Team for making a great PHP 5 product that was good in the past.

Up to date system requirements, snappy performance, simple installation and upgrade, no database required - all these make SnappyMail a good choice.

[marcusquinn]

Demo is definitely Snappy! Nice to know.

[jdaviescoates]

@robi said in Snappymail - Rainloop Fork:

Great find, we need a more modern webmail

+1

It amazes me how bad and lacking in features all existing options are

[necrevistonnezr]

Upvote here: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/5772/snappymail-a-modern-fork-of-rainloop

[girish]

It seems there is some movement in the upstream project. It's become rebranded as "RainLoop Webmail (Legacy edition)" and distributed as MIT. I haven't found any more information on why it's legacy. See https://www.rainloop.net/try-now/ and https://www.rainloop.net/licensing/

[necrevistonnezr]

@girish There‘s also movement in the repository (mostly license stuff as far as I can see): https://github.com/RainLoop/rainloop-webmail

[jdaviescoates]

@girish SnappyMail has followed suit too

https://github.com/the-djmaze/snappymail/issues/509

[jdaviescoates]

Interesting, someone created a pull request removing a bunch of stuff about different versions and turning on all pro features

https://github.com/RainLoop/rainloop-webmail/pull/2148

and then it looks like all that happened as part of relicensing to MIT

https://github.com/RainLoop/rainloop-webmail/compare/v1.16.0...v1.17.0

I'm no coder but looks like all the references to other versions have been removed and pro features enabled.

[girish]

@jdaviescoates right, but it also got rebranded as "legacy".

[jdaviescoates]

@girish which I guess suggests perhaps a newer rewrite is coming, or something

I guess we'll see...